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Implications of computer science theory for the simulation hypothesis
David H. Wolpert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16050 https://arxiv…

Implications of computer science theory for the simulation hypothesis
The simulation hypothesis has recently excited renewed interest, especially in the physics and philosophy communities. However, the hypothesis specifically concerns {computers} that simulate physical universes, which means that to properly investigate it we need to couple computer science theory with physics. Here I do this by exploiting the physical Church-Turing thesis. This allows me to introduce a preliminary investigation of some of the computer science theoretic aspects of the simulation …